Sentences with phrase «teacher resistance»

We would have experienced less teacher resistance if there had been consistent messaging and ongoing professional discourse among the district, administrators, and teachers.

In their contract with ANet, network schools agree not to use the scores to rate their teachers, a move designed to dampen teacher resistance.

Arguing «there is just no doubt that one of the central problems in improving urban schools — arguably the central problem — is the problem of teacher resistance,» he critiques the progressive expectation that teachers can eventually be coaxed along through evidence on two key counts: first, it presumes that reformers and teachers share the same aims and metrics, and second, it presumes that reformers can marshal the evidence to convince the holdouts.

Talbert (2010) warns that a bureaucratic approach to PLCs — mandatory attendance, strictly prescribed activities, and over emphasis on testing — results in teacher resistance and anxiety towards collaboration rather than feelings of mutual trust and shared responsibility.

The book first recounts the technical challenges in reforming teacher pay and the reasons for teacher resistance, then how trial and error, tough negotiation, and assiduous efforts to win hearts and minds convinced teachers to endorse the plan in 2004.

In a guide to using film in the classroom, Miller (1979) asserted that «not enough has been said about teacher resistance to using film» (p. 96).

CTU represented unified teacher resistance in action.

Hope doesn't factor the ANet interim test scores into youngsters» overall grades, and in their contract with ANet, network schools agree not to use the scores to rate their teachers, a move designed to dampen teacher resistance.

The first time I heard of Open Space Technology was in 2013 at the initial meeting of the Teacher Resistance and Action Network, a group of teachers and education practitioners who had gathered under the guidance of Dr. Thomas Poetter of Miami University to discuss how to teach responsibly in the age of high - stakes testing.

And what about the unions, teacher resistance to change?

Despite the seemingly limited risk educators take on when exploring new teaching strategies, teacher resistance to change is common across many school districts.

A secondary cause is teacher resistance to embracing the pedagogical practices necessary to integrate technology into instructional practice effectively (Pedersen & Liu, 2003).

Finds that student involvement in decision - making is limited to inconsequential matters, partly due to teacher resistance.